Coldplay - Fix You Meaning

Song Released: 2005

Fix You Lyrics

Coldplay
Fix You

When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 28th 2006 !⃝

   I've been reading everyone's responses to the song, and it seems that it fits in a number of different aspects of life. Of course, life has many ups and downs. This song seems to be about the downs, and is quite sad, until the AMAZING guitar solo near the end of the song, which seems to say "Everything is going to be okay." It's almost reassuring. The song is melancholy, yet uplifting. I can't do it mercy with describing it... But I never realized how deep down it really hits until I heard them playing it live in concert... One word can describe: Wow.
   It actually had me crying, right there in the seat.
   Great band, they give us something to relate to. Because when something can sum up your feelings, it's comforting.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 14th 2006 !⃝

   I think the previous interpretation was very interesting, as just started college too. especially with "when you try your best but you don't succeed and get what you want but not what you need", etc. I definitely felt the struggles with the expectations to do well. It all goes to show how this and all of their music is so universal and meaningful, whether it's school, a broken heart, bereavement, loss of virginity, or whatever! that's why they're my favorite band of all time...
3. anonymous

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   Mar 13th 2006 !⃝

   I know that this song is meant to be about Chris Martin's wife (Paltrow) losing her father, but for me at the moment it seems to represent what I am going through. Specifically the transition from highschool to university, feeling as if, although I have achieved everything I wanted I feel strangely empty and alone. More broadly I think this song can be interpreted as the affect, such as a death or a major lifestyle change or any kind of loss, can have on someone. As was said in another interpretation, everyone needs fixing at some point in their life when something has happened to them and set them off course... just ideas.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 12th 2006 !⃝

   All I know is that this was the song that played in my mind when my mom's death was near...till this day every time I hear it I break down in tears.
5. boholovely

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   Feb 12th 2006 !⃝

   This song is what Chris wrote about wife Gwyneth Paltrow when she lost her father.
6. anonymous

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   Jan 20th 2006 !⃝

   I think the thing about Gwyneths father is true, but maybe the song can also just be seen in a way that says everyone needs fixing in some way, nobody's slate is ever clean. So maybe it's a song about a relationship that's struggling and how, despite how many mistakes we make in life that hurt the ones we love, the people you love fix you.
   
   I know that was mega cheese but.....
7. anonymous

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   Jan 17th 2006 !⃝

   This was the song we used for my fathers funeral and evertime I hear it now I remember him. He was an alcoholic and all of the lyrics apply to his life. It was the perfect song to describe everything that I was feeling.
8. anonymous

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   Dec 31st 2005 !⃝

   My daughter passed away soon after this song came out and I saw it as very comforting to me. It almost felt like she was saying the words to me through Chris Martin's voice. We also played this song at her funeral.
9. anonymous

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   Oct 31st 2005 !⃝

   This song was written by Chris Marin to his wife after her father died. It is very sweet and makes sense.